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1783–1789

1783–1789: (The Looming Volcano and the States-General): By 1783, the Marquis du Rouvray warned that the colony was “treading on loaded barrels of gunpowder”…

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1783–1789: (The Looming Volcano and the States-General): By 1783, the Marquis du Rouvray warned that the colony was “treading on loaded barrels of gunpowder” due to the internal wars between social classes. As famine and a fierce winter scourged France in 1788, Louis XVI was induced to convene the States-General for May 1, 1789, a body that had been dormant for 150 years. While France’s grievances focused on domestic privilege, Saint-Domingue’s primary complaints were directed at the French commercial monopoly and merchants in cities like Marseilles and Bordeaux. Planters, seeking economic emancipation, formed a commission to demand representation at Versailles, unaware that they were enthroned on a “volcano”. The long fuse of the revolution had burned very short as the “horrid death-throes” of colonial Saint-Domingue began.

Source HT-WIB-000047, 000049